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Elizabeth Warren is Demanding Special Treatment for Transgender Asylum Seekers

Presidential hopeful Elizabeth Warren has called on the Trump administration to protect transgender asylum seekers, who allegedly suffer “rampant” abuse while in detention. Along with her fellow senator Tammy Baldwin, the first out LGBT+ person elected to the US Senate, Elizabeth Warren wrote a letter urging the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to “immediately reverse policies” that harm transgender migrants seeking refuge in the US. The senators state that the ‘Remain in Mexico’ policy is particularly harmful to trans asylum seekers as it forces them to remain in countries where their gender identity puts them at risk. They said the administration […]

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LGBT and African American Homeless Youth at Huge Risk of Human Trafficking, Study Says

More than half of homeless young people in Atlanta, Georgia, have been victims of human trafficking and LGBT+ and African American youth are most at risk, according to a new study. The Atlanta Youth Count 2018 study by Georgia State University sociology professor Eric Wright found that there were an estimated 3,372 homeless young people in Atlanta between the ages of 14 and 25.ADVERTISING Human trafficking is defined in the report as “acquisition of people by improper means such as force, fraud or deception, with the aim of exploiting them either for sexual acts or labour services”. Overall, 54 per cent […]

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Football Players Chant ‘Sickening’ Anti-gay Slurs at Male Cheerleader

High school football players allegedly shouted homophobic slurs at a male cheerleader, aged just 14. The incident on October 18 at Wilcox High School in Santa Clara, California, saw the teen targeted with homophobic chants from varsity football players, who branded him a “fag” for being part of the cheerleading squad. According to local newspaper Mercury News, school officials asked the Santa Clara Police Department to investigate after the teen and another female cheerleader were threatened with violence. The boy, who is not being named, is still attending school. Father of cheerleader is ‘fearful for his safety’. His father told the newspaper: […]

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U.K.’s First Chick-fil-A to Close Following LGBTQ Protests

American fast-food chain Chick-fil-A recently ventured across the pond to the United Kingdom — but the controversial chicken restaurant won’t last long. Soon after opening Oct. 10, Chick-fil-A’s restaurant at the Oracle Mall in Reading, a town in Berkshire, announced it will close after its six-month lease expires, according to the BBC, with the mall saying in a statement it was the “right thing to do.” The suburban eatery faced protests from activists who took issue with the company’s track record on LGBTQ rights. Related NBC OUT Northern Ireland prepares for momentous gay marriage, abortion changes Prior to the closure announcement, […]

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Pride Flags Ignite Hope and Outrage in Utah, Where Youth Suicide Rate Soars

For the first time last June, residents in Heber City, Utah, saw their downtown adorned in rainbows. Sky Elizabeth Smith, 15, remembered driving with her family through the tiny Rocky Mountain town in northern Utah where she grew up, and finding herself surrounded by dozens of rainbow banners on both sides of Main Street. “It made me feel really, really happy,” she told NBC News. Smith, a high school student who identifies as pansexual, attempted suicide last year after what she described as routine bullying from classmates. Some classmates, she recalled, told her that Jesus was going to return and […]

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Halloween Party Happens this Saturday in Sebastopol

Sebastopol Senior Center’s Fabulous Halloween LGBTQ and Friends Dance Party. Included in the $15 door prices are 4 rooms of fun, black light art, gorilla kissing photo booth, talking pumpkins, delicious food for meat eaters and vegetarians, CAKE, Fortune Tellers for private sessions by donation, live DJ takes requests, home-backed chocolate chip cookies, FUN PEOPLE, ghosts that fly through windows, 8-foot clowns, skeletons. Beer and wine only $5. Our team of volunteers are up late preparing this wonderful event for you to enjoy. All money raised goes to help Seniors.And DJ BearCake Donald Rodreick has been up late working on his “Monster Mash” dance […]

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Host City for WorldPride in 2023 has been Announced

WorldPride 2023 will be held in Sydney, InterPride has announced, marking the 50th Anniversary of Australia’s first Gay Pride Week. InterPride is the international association of Pride organisations, and it voted on Sunday, October 20, at its Annual General Meeting in Athens on the bids for 2023 WorldPride. Sydney’s bid, submitted by Sydney Lesbian and Gay Mardi Gras, focused on LGBT+ rights in the Asia Pacific region where many countries see extreme violence and discrimination against LGBT+ people. In 2014, Brunei introduced a law allowing death by stoning for same-sex sexual activity, although it was later revoked. The bid said that WorldPride […]

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Northern Ireland Prepares for Momentous Shift to Marriage Equality

Campaigners who fought for decades to end Northern Ireland’s same sex-marriage ban and restrictions on abortion prepared on Monday for a momentous change to the laws on both at the stroke of midnight. Northern Ireland is the only part of the United Kingdom that does not allow same-sex marriage. Also, unlike England, Scotland and Wales, laws in Northern Ireland forbid abortion except where a mother’s life is at risk, bans that have been upheld by the region’s block of conservative politicians. But an overwhelming vote by British lawmakers in July to compel the government in London to overhaul the laws […]

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Lesbian’s Skull Cracked and her Arms Dislocated after Ugandan Doctor Discovers her Sexuality

A Ugandan doctor allegedly shattered a patient’s skull, arms, legs and back with an iron bar and then threw her out of the hospital, all because she is lesbian. The patient was attacked in August this year in Kampala, the country’s capital, where the medical professional brutally battered her after finding out she is friends with his daughter. Enraged, the doctor ordered security to give him an iron bar which he then used to pelt the woman’s head, arms, legs, and back, local outlets reported. Patient went in to purchase glasses, left with her body and mobile phone shattered.  According […]

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A Transgender Woman Made History in the Muslim-majority Bangladesh

In a country where it is not only illegal to be gay, but laws are defined by traditional and strict religious views, a trans woman being elected councillor seems like a fever dream. But for Bangladeshi garment shop owner Pinki Khatun, it’s a reality. Khatun was elected as councillor for Kotchandpur, a rural town in the country’s westside, after beating her nearest rival by more than 4,000 votes earlier this week, reported The Straits Times. “I am very delighted. I campaigned door-to-door and people have responded positively,” said Khatun. “I did not face any discrimination or hate campaigns.” Trans councillor: ‘My aim is […]

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